Gary Mason (journalist)

Gary Mason is a Canadian journalist. He currently is the national affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, covering events in western Canada. A graduate of Langara College's journalism program, he started his career with the Victoria Times Colonist before moving to the Vancouver Sun, where he worked for nineteen years.[1][2] Mason was hired by the Globe as part of an effort to expand the publication to British Columbia readers in 2005; his familiarity to local readers was a factor in his hiring.[3]

He is the co-author of John Furlong's memoir, Patriot Hearts: Inside the Games that Changed a Country.[4]

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The Globe and Mail
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The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper owned by The Woodbridge Company, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. The Globe and Mail is regarded by some as Canadas newspaper of record, the predecessor to The Globe and Mail was The Globe, founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown, who became a Father of Confederation. Browns liberal politics led him to court the support of the Clear Grits and he selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. The quotation is carried on the page to this day. By the 1850s, The Globe had become an independent and well-regarded daily newspaper and it began distribution by railway to other cities in Ontario shortly after Canadian Confederation. At the dawn of the century, The Globe added photography, a womens section, and the slogan Canadas National Newspaper. It began opening bureaus and offering subscriptions across Canada, on 23 November 1936, The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire, itself formed through the 1895 merger of two conservative newspapers, The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire. Press reports at the stated, the minnow swallowed the whale because The Globes circulation was smaller than The Mail. The merger was arranged by George McCullagh, who fronted for mining magnate William Henry Wright and became the first publisher of The Globe, McCullagh committed suicide in 1952, and the newspaper was sold to the Webster family of Montreal. As the paper lost ground to The Toronto Star in the local Toronto market, the newspaper was unionised in 1955, under the banner of the American Newspaper Guild. From 1937 until 1974, the newspaper was produced at the William H, in 1965, the paper was bought by Winnipeg-based FP Publications, controlled by Bryan Maheswary, which owned a chain of local Canadian newspapers. FP put an emphasis on the Report on Business section that was launched in 1962. FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation, after the acquisition there were few changes made in editorial or news policy. However, there was more attention paid to national and international news on the editorial, op-ed, the Globe and Mail has always been a morning newspaper. Since the 1980s, it has been printed in editions in six Canadian cities, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary. Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild employees took their first ever strike vote at The Globe in 1982 and those negotiations ended without a strike, and the Globe unit of SONG still has a strike-free record. SONG members voted in 1994 to sever ties with the American-focused Newspaper Guild, shortly afterwards, SONG affiliated with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Under the editorship of William Thorsell in the 1980s and 1990s, during this period, the paper continued to favour such socially liberal policies as decriminalizing drugs and expanding gay rights

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Langara College
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The college takes its name from the neighbourhood in which it is situated, which was named after Spanish Admiral Juan de Lángara. Langara College courses and programs were first offered in 1965 at King Edward Centre as part of Vancouver City College, since 1970, the current campus on West 49th Avenue has housed Langaras programs for over 40 years. On April 1,1994, Langara College was established as an independent public college under the Provincial College, Langara College Continuing Studies was established in 1997. To provide more space, a new classroom and office building was opened in January 1997, the new library/classroom building was opened in September 2007. This is the first time a BC First Nation has given an Indigenous name to a public, the three 4-year degree programs offered by the College are Nursing, Recreation Management, and Business Administration. Langaras wide range of programs in more than 60 subject areas are offered over three semesters per year. Langara is a choice for university transfer students due to smaller class sizes, excellent support services. More students transfer to BC universities from Langara College than from any college in the province. Although some of Langaras career programs require that students complete the program within a time period. Langara Colleges Continuing Studies department offers over 700 courses and 35 certificate programs year-round, the departments strategic objective is to provide lifelong learning opportunities to meet the individual needs of students. There are 4479 Continuing Studies students in the Fall 2016 term, Langara has over 1,200 international students to Vancouver from over 30 countries. Studio 58, Langara Colleges School of Theatre Arts offers professional training for actors. The program ranked within the Top five theatre schools in Canada in 2006, the school auditions hundreds of people across Canada but only sixteen students are accepted per semester. The school has around 72 students for both its three-year acting program, and two-year production program, the School of Theatre Arts is currently led by Artistic Director Kathryn Shaw. Langaras intercollegiate athletic program is one of the top athletic programs in Canada. Langara is a member of the Pacific Western Athletic Association, formerly known as the British Columbia Colleges Athletic Association, in 1999, Langara College was the runner-up for the Overall CCAA Sport Supremacy Award for athletic achievements between the years of 1974 and 1999. Student media include the newspaper The Voice, operated by the Colleges Journalism Program, List of colleges in British Columbia List of universities in British Columbia Higher education in British Columbia Education in Canada Langara College

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Victoria Times Colonist
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The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed by the merger, in 1980, of the Victoria Daily Times, established in 1884 and the British Colonist, established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos, the British Colonist was BCs first paper of any permanence. Cosmos was the editor until 1866 when D. W. Higgins took over for the twenty years. The Times Colonist is owned by the Glacier Newspaper Group, local news receives the greatest prominence in the Times Colonist. Stories and photographs about Greater Victoria are often featured on the front page, but the newspaper also has national and international stories, plus sections covering the arts, sports, and business. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the daily paid circulation for the Times Colonist. The paper is attempting to raise revenue by charging readers who read more than twenty on-line digital articles a month, the Times Colonist is published six days a week and is sold by subscription or at newsstands. Black Press produces twice-weekly community papers that compete with the Times Colonist for readership and are distributed for free, through home delivery and in boxes in high-traffic public areas. In 2015 the newsroom of the Times Colonist was staffed by about 50 people, working as reporters, columnists, photographers, editors, layout designers, graphic artists, the first sixty years of the British Colonist are available online, with free access. List of newspapers in Canada Times Colonist web site The British Colonist 1858-1920

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The Vancouver Sun
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The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on February 12,1912. The paper is published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. It is published six days a week, Monday to Saturday, although its staff of reporters has shrunken considerably in recent years, the Sun still has the largest newsroom in Vancouver. The Sun is a newspaper and was not originally related to the Sun Media chain and its tabloid Sun papers in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary. However, Sun Media was acquired by Postmedia in 2015, making the Vancouver Sun, when the Sun began operation, it was published at 125 West Pender Street, just around the corner from The Province, its rival at the time. From 1917 until his death in 1936, its publisher was Robert James Cromie, in 1924, the Sun bought the Vancouver World newspaper, which had been in financial difficulty for some time. In March 1937, a fire destroyed the Suns business and editorial offices, the only casualty was the janitor, who suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation. The Sun promptly moved across the street into the World Building, the building was accordingly renamed the Sun Tower. In 1958, the Sun and the Province joined to create the Pacific Press in response to the costs of producing newspapers. First the papers merged their mechanical and financial departments, then both moved into the Pacific Press Building on December 27,1965. Later in 1997 the paper moved to Granville Square, according to a 2010 NADbank survey, the Suns daily Monday-to-Friday readership was 453,500, making it British Columbias second most read newspaper, after The Province. Its six-day average circulation was 171,515 copies a day as of September 30,2010, in May 2009, the newspaper laid off long-time editorial cartoonist Roy Peterson who had been drawing for the paper since 1962. In October 2011, Patricia Graham, the editor in chief, was appointed vice-president, the Vancouver Sun website has more than 30 million page views monthly. In December 2011, after much research on the demographics of the greater Vancouver area, according to an article broadcast on China Now on China Radio International, the key to success was not necessarily to translate its English-language version into Chinese. The Sun features different sections every day

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John Furlong (sports administrator)
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Currently, Furlong is the Chairman of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, a Major League Soccer team. Born in Ireland in 1950, Furlong first moved to work in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1969 to 1972 and he immigrated to Canada in 1975. He cited Canada as being unique in appointing an immigrant to be CEO of their Olympic Games. Furlong chaired the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation and pitched Vancouver in Prague in its bid to the International Olympic Committee to host the Winter Games. He was also president of Arbutus Club, was a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, and chaired BC Summer Games, BC Winter Games, Furlong is chair of Own the Podium, a Canadian not-for-profit created to develop Canada as a world leader in high performance sport. Furlong served as advisor to the organizers of the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, in July 2016, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Furlong will chair the Special Committee for Home Games to assist Calgary if it decides to bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. Furlong joined the board of Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc, in 2016, Furlong and Gareth Rees led Rugby Canadas bid for Vancouvers to host the World Rugby Sevens World Series event. Furlong is chairman of Rocky Mountaineer, a tourism company based in Vancouver. Since 2011, Furlong has served as a member of the board of Canadian Tire retailer. As a paid speaker, Furlong is a member of the National Speakers Bureau. John Furlong is a controversial figure following revelations of errors and omissions in his autobiography, on February 12,2011, the one-year anniversary of the Olympics, Furlong published his autobiography Patriot Hearts – Inside the Olympics that Changed a Country. Furlong lived in Canada from 1969 to 1972 as a Frontier Apostle missionary in Burns Lake and Prince George, during these years, he married and began a family. His autobiography mentions only that his family immigrated to Canada in 1974, the omission of Furlongs earlier attendance in Canada remains controversial because the timeline coincides with allegations he abused First Nations children while a teacher in Burns Lake. His co-author Gary Mason has stated that Furlong never mentioned the earlier attendance in Canada, in 1974, the body of Furlongs niece Siobhan Roice was identified by her father Edward Ned Roice after she was killed in terrorist bombings in Dublin. Furlongs family in Ireland denied the claim that Jack Furlong, Furlongs father. In 1986, Furlong was an age group winner in a Canadian Squash Championships event, while his professional biographies continue to state he was the 1986 Canadian Squash Champion, the title was actually earned by Jamie Hickox. The article, by journalist Laura Robinson, was supported by over 45 statements, Robinson response to Furlongs defamation action included additional allegations including statements that he emotionally, physically and sexually abused his first and second wives. Abuse allegations against Furlong have never heard nor accepted as evidence in court